On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Anders Melchiorsen wrote:

quoted text
> Make the description of pushing tags easier to read, but move the
> shorthand notation towards the end of the description. This gives
> a better flow.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anders Melchiorsen <mail@cup.kalibalik.dk>
> ---
>  Documentation/git-push.txt |    8 +++++---
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Documentation/git-push.txt b/Documentation/git-push.txt
> index 9788d49..52035db 100644
> --- a/Documentation/git-push.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/git-push.txt
> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ OPTIONS
>  	by the source ref, followed by a colon `:`, followed by
>  	the destination ref.
>  +
> -The <src> side represents the source branch that you
> +The <src> side represents the source branch or tag that you
>  want to push.  The <dst> side represents the destination location.
>  +
>  The local ref that matches <src> is used
> @@ -46,8 +46,6 @@ to fast forward the remote ref that matches <dst>.  If
>  the optional leading plus `+` is used, the remote ref is updated
>  even if it does not result in a fast forward update.
>  +
> -`tag <tag>` means the same as `refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`.
> -+
>  A parameter <ref> without a colon pushes the <ref> from the source
>  repository to the destination repository under the same name.
>  +
> @@ -64,6 +62,10 @@ nor in any Push line of the corresponding remotes file---see below).
>  The <src> can be an arbitrary "SHA1 expression", such as `HEAD`
>  or `master~4` (see linkgit:git-rev-parse[1]). In this case, a
>  <dst> location has to be named.
> ++
> +When pushing tags, `tag <tag>` can be used as a shorthand for
> +`refs/tags/<tag>:refs/tags/<tag>`. This should be specified as
> +two arguments (that is, without quotes in the shell).

I think this should be "When pushing a tag, ...", to avoid confusion with 
"--tags", which pushes (all) tags and doesn't need the "tag <tag>" 
arguments.

	-Daniel
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